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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Giveaway

I am thrilled to hear that at least one person went to a Memory Screening as the result of the last post. I am even happier that the result was good.

In honor of Alzheimer's Awareness Month, I've been dyeing purples. Purple with blue, purple with pink, purple with gray, you get the idea.

Now to the good stuff. Giveaway details. The winner will choose one of the braids above. I am willing to spin it, and weave it on the peg loom into a scarf/shawl. A spinner might just want the fiber, a knitter or weaver might want just the yarn. Again, winner's choice.

To enter, just leave a comment, that's it. If you want to, make a donation to the Alzheimer's Association. It's not a requirement, just an idea. Or, write your Congressperson. Help spread the word about Alzheimer's and post about the giveaway, (leave a link in the comments), and I'll enter you twice.

I'll do the random number generator Saturday night, so be sure to get your comment in by then!

I have only recently come across your blog via a search for peg looms. Now I have asked my husband to make me a tri-loom, maybe for Christmas. I want a 7 foot one but he thinks we don't have the room. I shall work on it. I may have to try spinning - perhaps a spindle first... very inspiring, thank you. (I'd love some of your gorgeous colours!)

Lovely colorways! I would love to spin and knit one of those braids up, in rememberance of my dad, who passed on 12 years ago from Alzheimer's. I hope a cure is found for this horrid disease, too many have suffered from it.

I'm lucky: My mom got into an experimental research group, and got not only screenings, but genetic tests as well. She (and therefore I) am not more disposed towards Alzheimers than the rest of the population.

Thank you for continuing the firht for awareness and--some day--prevention/cure.

My own Mother died of Alzheimer's 18 months ago. Reading your blog has been both painful and cathartic for me. I'd use the yarn to knit something for a friend who works in an Alzheimer's facility. Thank you.

The way you've arranged the braids makes them especially appealing. If one were making a set of postcards one could take that photo, plus a photograph of the spun skeins (perhaps as rolls and also as yarn cakes) and then perhaps a photograph of a set of simple lace scarves knit from them: like a flower opening, the sequence would show the fiber evolving through its different forms, carrying its color with it. Those colors are just ravishing. Thank you for sharing this with us!

I love the braids layered like that. Such beautiful hues. Reminds me of sunsets.I've put a link to 'write your congressman on my blog.It's heartrending the way this disease destroys a person's sense of Self.

"It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions have ceased to use their hands...this great gift...It is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God."

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. (Unknown)